The risk . Okay. Lets get you uptodate on whats happening out there in the markets. Guys, stocks have been you know, a little bit soggy. You is k see the dow and the s p moving to the down side in fairly narrow trading, but the nasdaq is holding its head above water. Not a huge amount of movement in either direction right now. As for oil, lets take a look at whats going on with oil. It is currently sitting to the down side by 1. 6 . Brent, meantime down by 2. 6 . You might remember became the first u. S. Corporation to hit 700 billion in market cap. Its just building on it today. I want to say billion dollar val walkings at current prices. To put it in perspective, take a look at what that 724 billion means in terms of the size of other large cap well known stocks in america. First of all its twice the size of microsoft. Microsoft is around a 350 billion company. Yes, apple is worth two times microsoft. Its awes bigger than four coke i dont colas. Thats about the size what im talking a
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the ayes are 51, the nays are 43. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of daniel j. Santos of virginia to be a member of the Defense Nuclear facilities safety board, signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of daniel j. Santos of virginia to be a member of the Defense Nuclear facilitates safety board shall be brought to a close . The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call t
Landing in kazakhstan, i was back in my dormitory in star city. Every 15 minutes, someone would come in and job a needle or give me a cap to fill. My a cup to fill. My mission went well. My capsule is now on display, along with the shuttle. You can see some good stuff there. The shuttle and concorde, that is back when we were taking some risks. I feel it is unfortunate we are not taking those kind of risks to advance not just space, but aviation in general. It reminds you help will and innovative we once were. Would i do it again . In a heartbeat. I loved it. If you want to read anymore, i have a book on the internet called by any means neccessaryy. Thank you for coming. I will do questions or you can eat. On october 12, 2008, Richard Garriott launched aboard a shuttle to the International Space station as a selffunded astronaut. He returned 12 days later. He became the First American to be a secondgeneration space traveler, following in his fathers footsteps. In october he talked abou
That was a test. My father had told me stories from sky lab about he had always seen the fires in the amazon and people were clearcutting it. I hadnt thought about it for 35 years. I remember when i was a kid, there were a lot of tv things about it about save the rainforest, shockingly you dont see much these day. Boy, is it still burning and so was big areas of the green belt through central africa, but for me, the great epiphany came on this day. This was probably day eightish. It was the first time i had after having that information about the earth pour into your mind, i finally saw a place i knew personally very well. There is my house off a lake in austin, texas, i could also see houston where i grew up around nasa. I could see the gulf coast where i played on beaches as a kid, up in dallas where i had driven many times, i had driven and walked and biked those areas intimately. I knew the size of it. I knew how big it was. At the time, i could see the whole earth and suddenly tha
Period of time. An incredible amount of progress was made during that decade. What is interesting about that 50 years ago, still just over 500 people after 50 years have left the earth. That is not that many. We have been stuck in low orbit for a while. One thing apollo did do was, it was the opening bell if not responsible for the tech boom. It accomplish a great deal towards inspiring our generation to get it did inspire our generation to get into the tech industry. I am a game developer. Like so many people of my generation inspired by this, a lot of them turned back to space. Were way past 2001 and we are way short of having a rotating platforms in space. The reason why that has been true is a Pretty Simple equation. Traveling to space is expensive, dangerous. It is not surprising that it would be very uncommon. That is what is changing now. Those first assumptions that it has to be expensive and dangerous, those assumptions are wrong foundational he foundationally. My life is work